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Introduction
Crisis Theory, Then and Now
Crisis Theory, Then and Now
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Frankfurt School
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a school of social theory and philosophy associated in part with the Institute for Social Research at the Goethe University Frankfurt; consisted of dissidents who felt at home neither in the existent capitalist, fascist, nor communist systems that had formed at the time
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My book treats the financial and fiscal crisis of contemporary democratic capitalism in the light of Frankfurt School crisis theories of the late 1960s and early 1970s
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My book treats the financial and fiscal crisis of contemporary democratic capitalism in the light of Frankfurt School crisis theories of the late 1960s and early 1970s
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Marxist
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relating to or denoting the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (noun or adj)
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eclectic use was made of elements of the Marxist tradition
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eclectic use was made of elements of the Marxist tradition
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valorization
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give or assign a value to, especially a higher value: "The prophets valorized history"
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propinquity
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the state of being close to someone or something; proximity
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the social context constituted by propinquity
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the social context constituted by propinquity
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dialectic
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a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned arguments
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the development of the current crisis may be understood as an evolutionary, and also dialectical, process
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the development of the current crisis may be understood as an evolutionary, and also dialectical, process
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financialization
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the process whereby the financial industry becomes more prominent
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the epochal process of capitalist development that we call ‘financialization’
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the epochal process of capitalist development that we call ‘financialization’
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polity
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(noun) a form or process of civil government or constitution; OR an organized society; a state as a political entity
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conception of the economy in polity and society
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conception of the economy in polity and society
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legitimation crisis
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a decline in the confidence of administrative functions, institutions, or leadership; first introduced in 1973 by Jürgen Habermas, a German sociologist and philosopher
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theories that postulated in the 1970s an impending ‘legitimation crisis’ of ‘late capitalism’
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theories that postulated in the 1970s an impending ‘legitimation crisis’ of ‘late capitalism’
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late capitalism
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a term used by neo-Marxists to refer to capitalism from about 1945 onwards, with the implication that it is a historically limited stage rather than a permanent
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theories that postulated in the 1970s an impending ‘legitimation crisis’ of ‘late capitalism’
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theories that postulated in the 1970s an impending ‘legitimation crisis’ of ‘late capitalism’
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